About the day » Friday April 18, 2003Calender converter

• Jolijn Benak († 2005)

• Cornelis Meijer (62), Zeist
• Ben Jansen (44), Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Arie Keizerwaard (84), Rotterdam
• Arie van der Steen (77)
• Cornelis Meijer (62), Zeist
• Anthonia Maria van Leusden (84)
• Anna de Haan (87), Hilversum
• Cornelis den Ouden (87), Mijdrecht
• Antonia Clasina van Hengstum (83)
• Deborah Anne (Debbie) DE VROOME (39), Sydney (AUS)

• 1990 » Anna van der Breggen, Dutch cyclist
• 1990 » Henderson Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1990 » Jake Howells, English footballer
• 1993 » Matt Salisbury, English cricketer
• 1993 » Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
• 1996 » Ioana Ducu, Romanian tennis player
• 1996 » Mariah Bell, American figure skater
• 1997 » Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer
• 1997 » Matthias Blübaum, German chess grandmaster

• 1997 » Edward Barker, English cartoonist (b. 1950)
• 1998 » Terry Sanford, American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2003 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American soldier, pilot, and computer scientist (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)
• 2006 » Mercedes Palomino, Spanish-born Quebec actor and theatre director (b. 1913)
• 2007 » Iccho Itoh, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
• 2008 » Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1907)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
• January 11 » Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
• June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• August 14 » Project Thread, an operation launched by CSIS and other Canadian law enforcement agencies, saw the arrest and incarceration of 24 innocent Muslim men, most of them young Pakistani students.
• September 27 » The SMART-1 satellite is launched.
• October 17 » Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise.
• December 26 » The 6.6 M_w  Bam earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.

The temperature on April 18, 2003 was between 5.8 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.